Lock"out` (?), n. The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer,
usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a
suspension of wages.
Lock"ram (?), n. [F. locrenan, locronan; from Locronan, in Brittany,
where it is said to have been made.] A kind of linen cloth anciently
used in England, originally imported from Brittany. Shak.
Lock"smith` (?), n. An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend
locks.
Lock" step` (?). A mode of marching by a body of men going one after
another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the
same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.
Lock" stitch` (?). A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of
two threads together, as in the work done by some sewing machines. See
Stitch.
Lock"up` (?), n. A place where persons under arrest are temporarily
locked up; a watchhouse.
Lock"-weir` (?), n. A waste weir for a canal, discharging into a lock
chamber.
Lock"y (?), a. Having locks or tufts. [R.] Sherwood.
||Lo"co (?), adv. [It.] (Mus.) A direction in written or printed music
||to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
||
Lo"co, n. [Sp. loco insane.] (Bot.) A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing
in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and
cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to
several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.
Lo`co*fo"co (?), n. [Of uncertain etymol.; perh. for L. loco foci
instead of fire; or, according to Bartlett, it was called so from a
self-lighting cigar, with a match composition at the end, invented in
1834 by John Marck of New York, and called by him locofoco cigar, in
imitation of the word locomotive, which by the uneducated was supposed
to mean, self-moving.] 1. A friction match. [U.S.]
2. A nickname formerly given to a member of the Democratic party.
[U.S.]
The name was first applied, in 1834, to a portion of the Democratic
party, because, at a meeting in Tammany Hall, New York, in which there
was great diversity of sentiment, the chairman left his seat, and the
lights were extinguished, for the purpose of dissolving the meeting;
when those who were opposed to an adjournment produced locofoco
matches, rekindled the lights, continued the meeting, and accomplished
their object.
Lo`co*mo"tion (?), n. [L. locus place + motio motion: cf. F.
locomotion. See Local, and Motion.] 1. The act of moving from place to
place. " Animal locomotion." Milton.
2. The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the
higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.
Lo"co*mo`tive (?), a. [Cf. F. locomotif. See Locomotion.] 1. Moving
from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a
locomotive animal.